12.7.06

Not quite back

But getting there. I haven't disappeared, really, but I haven't been around here either. More later, but for now (and because it's baseball season, and I'm expecting a full report of Priya's experiments in football behavior at Nats games) a present for you, loyal reader:

"So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentalization is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them."